bartisans

Although the revived style was largely used for private country houses, Scottish architects or perhaps their clients liked to incorporate crenel­l­ations, turreted bartisans, oriels and hewn stone in public buildings as well.

Archive 2009-05-01 Hels 2009

Wherever in Inverness a person stands, he/she immediately notices the slender towers and turrets corbelled out at the corners and over the from door, slate roof, pierced parapet, fenestration and decorative bartisans ie over-hanging, wall-mounted turrets projecting from the walls of medieval fortifications.

Archive 2009-05-01 Hels 2009

Wherever in Inverness a person stands, he/she immediately notices the slender towers and turrets corbelled out at the corners and over the from door, slate roof, pierced parapet, fenestration and decorative bartisans ie over-hanging, wall-mounted turrets projecting from the walls of medieval fortifications.

Inverness Town House - Victorian public architecture Hels 2009

Although the revived style was largely used for private country houses, Scottish architects or perhaps their clients liked to incorporate crenel­l­ations, turreted bartisans, oriels and hewn stone in public buildings as well.

Inverness Town House - Victorian public architecture Hels 2009

The heavy, yet hasty step of the men-at-arms, traversed the battlements or resounded on the narrow and winding passages and stairs which led to the various bartisans and points of defence.

Ivanhoe 2004

The heavy, yet hasty step of the men-at-arms, traversed the battlements or resounded on the narrow and winding passages and stairs which led to the various bartisans and points of defence.

Ivanhoe 1892

The heavy, yet hasty step of the men-at-arms, traversed the battlements or resounded on the narrow and winding passages and stairs which led to the various bartisans and points of defence.

Ivanhoe. A Romance 1819

Since she came over, there has been a wonderful work doing here; and it is thought that the crown will be taken off her head by a strong handling of the Parliament; and really, when I think of the bishops sitting high in the peerage, like owls and rooks in the bartisans of an old tower, I have my fears that they can bode her no good.

The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family John Galt 1809

The heavy, yet hasty step of the men-at-arms, traversed the battlements or resounded on the narrow and winding passages and stairs which led to the various bartisans and points of defence.

Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1801